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Topic: Tellstick on 1004 (Read 1651 times)

I have used a tellstick USB lighting controller for quite while on 8.10. Changed recently to 1004.Tellstick installs automagically when the USB device is connected. That's great.However any lights created in LMCE fail to switch anything at all.LMCE says this to me:

Message Sent succesfully./usr/pluto/bin/MessageSend localhost -r 0 83 1 192 97 "" 98 ""Response was:RESP: Delivery failedI tried learning and switching devices on and off from the command line with the 'tdtool'. That works flawlessly, so it seems like the messages from LMCE don't reach the Tellstick software.Has anybody encountered this too? And if so, has it been solved?

Hi Posde, I am not sure what I should see in webadmin. The tellstick devices show up as generic serial devices, which, I assume, is correct. Actually I have 2 of them, one that has a first line saying 'COM port on PC' and another one that has 'Serial Number' as a first line in the webadmin. Both identifie as 'Tellstick RF USB Controller' with device template 2169. see attached screen shot.Pointman87: I have a hybrid core. Nevertheless, I will give installing on a separate MD a try.

looks strange to me. What I meant initially was, check under advanced on those devices if they are disabled.

EDIT: Just checked the wiki page. I do not see anything that denotes having to have two tellstick devices. If I were you, I would unplug the tellstick, reboot the core, remove the two tellstick devices, quick reload the core, plug the tellstick back in, and see what happens.

Pointman87: tried to install the device on a MD. seemed to go ok, until I got a screen saying "the device failed to start, something is not right'. Then the Tellstick was detected again and the software installation ran again, the device was started again, and also failed to start again.Tested if I could switch on/off lights through the webadmin, did not work. So same result as on the core.Then removed the tellstick from the MD, both physically and in the webadmin.Posde: After I removed the Tellstick from the MD, I rebooted the core, removed the Tellstick devices, did a quick reload router, and plugged in the Tellstick.Result: after a while Tellstick is detected, software is installed, asked to restart the router. nothing seems to happen, so quick reload router from webadmin.Result: one single instance of Tellstick in the webadmin under device tree - core. Added an on/off light switch. Quick reload router. Try the new light device: no luck, nothing happens. Rechecked functionality with 'tdtool' :working. Did a screen -ls to check if any tellstick process is there: no Tellstick process:

Update: after writing the previous post, the core again detected the same Tellstick, and asked to use it. Saying yes, would no doubt lead to another instance of a Tellstick controller on the core. So for the time being I slicked 'No, ignore it this time'

I tried that already and checked again just no: device ID of the Tellstick device is 88. There is no log starting with 88 in /var/log/pluto.Highest device id in var/log/pluto is 57_LaunchSlimServer.sh.log. So no log is written.

HI Posde, I'd like to, but what is 'the tellstick command'? There is the tdtool from the Tellstick software suite, that works, but you might mean something else...I am not that familiar with what has been built for Tellstick inside LMCE....